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07 April 2012

In my decendency research of the Lund family, I am currently focusing on Didrich and Karen's oldest daughter, Christine, and her family. I have collected a lot of documents and know a lot more now than I did before. But, I still have a few questions I need to answer before I can keep going.

What do I know so far?

Where are there holes in the timeline?

Are there records available to fill in the holes?

Where can I go from here?

I think that making a timeline will help me answer these questions. So, using my Roots Magic software, I selected Peder Jensen and his wife Christine Funk Lund and their children to create a timeline report and saved it as a word document. This document includes the citations, so I can refer to them as needed.

Christine's LDS baptism/confirmation -- I have four different dates for Christine's baptism. I need to see if I can find her in the Bornholm Branch records. Also, I'll need to take a look at what Family Search has. It would not be surprising to find that she was baptized while alive and then had the work done for her as well.

All the "blue" facts come from the FamilySearch Family Group Record sheet for Didrich, Christine's father.

1888 is the last time I have real, verified information for the Jensen family.

Where can I go from here?Besides looking up the records listed above in purple, I have some other ideas.

1890 Danish Census - Where are the Jensen's? Are they still in Denmark or have they immigrated?

Nylarsker Parish records - I will continue my search for future years to see if I can find death records for Peder and Christine as well as possible marriage records for their two sons.

I know from Jacob Peter's christening record that he immigrated to America ... perhaps I could find a passenger list for him? Or, maybe find him in a US Census.

Obviously, I'd like to find children for Laurits and Jacob. But, I need to know more! Onward!

06 April 2012

So, I had been pouring through the Nylarsker Parish church records looking for any possible children for Peder and Christine Jensen that may have been missed in the censuses. In the process, I did find a daughter, Sanna, who was born and died between censuses. So, I decided to keep going to see if I missed anything else. What I found was a surprise --

A death record for Peder and Christine's oldest child, Annine Margrithe Kristine Jensen. When I saw her name, it actually made me sad - she was so young, only 22 years old.

Transcription / Translation:

1888

No.

3

Dødedagen

Death Date

9de Marts

9 March [1888]

Burial Date

16de Mars

16 March [1888]

Den Dødes For og Tilnavn

First and Last Name of the
Deceased

Annine Margrethe Kristine

Jensen

Stand

Position

Ugift Datter af Fisker Peder

Jensen i Arnager

f 3/3 66

Single daughter of Fisherman Peder

Jensen from Arnager

born 3 March [18]66

Alder

Age

22 Aar

22 Years

Hvor anfort i vet alm. Fevuf. Reg.

Where in General Index Register

[blank]

Amnær.

Remarks

Skifteattest af 3/3 88

Brystsyge, laa i 10 Maaneder!

Probate certificate of 3 March [18]88

Chest disease. Laid [in bed] for 10 months!

It was actually quite surprising to me that I had such a negative response to finding this record. I didn't feel the "yeah, I found her" feeling, but rather a "no, not yet." I think that is an interesting side effect of studying family history. These people become your people and you feel connected to them. This young woman, my Annine, died at just 22 years old from a chest disease (TB? Pneumonia?) which according to the priest's notes had her in bed for 10 months. How difficult for her parents. They had lost a young 5 year old daughter and now another daughter. But even more than looking at this through her parent's perspective, I thought of all that she missed. I had hoped she had immigrated to Utah, married, had children. All the "what might have been's" are no longer possible.

From a purely research side, there is some good to come from this record. The priest noted there was a probate certificate. (This was also the case for her sister Sanna) I will definately be looking these up next time I'm at the Family History Library.

05 April 2012

Having found the Jensen family in the 1880 Danish Census and noting a 10 year gap between children, I thought I might look for any other children Peder and Christine may have had. I knew there were 3 options.

Christine had one or more miscarriages. These would most likely not be recorded in the church records as births or deaths...unless the baby was near full term and considered a stillborn. I still don't think they could christen the child but perhaps there may be a burial record.

There was one or more children born in that time and they may have lived for a while but died before the 1880 census. In this case I should expect to find a christening and a burial record.

There were no other children, and therefore no records to be found. This may however be like #1, in that there are no records.

My plan of attack was to look in death records first. Here's what I found --

So, the Jensen's did have another daughter, Sanne (Danish version of Suzanne, sometimes spelled Sanna). Interestingly, she had a probate certificate. I was able to find the catalog record at the Family History Library, so the next time I go I will be sure to look this up! According to her burial record she was 5 years old. This gives me a rough idea of when she was born, so back I went into church records - this time looking for a christening. I started right after the last child's christening and moved forward, here's what I found --

I love that one of the witnesses, Johannes Peter Hansen, worked on a wind mill farm.

These records help explain the 10 year gap between children in the 1880 census. I did find another record of interest while digging in the church records, but you'll have to wait until tomorrow for that. :)

04 April 2012

In the 1880 Danish census I found another child for Peder and Christine Jensen - Jacob Peter Jensen. Since he was 1 year old at the time (1 Feb 1880) I went back into the church records to find his christening record.

Interesting:
His entry is pretty standard except for the short notation next to his number - "emigrated to America." I have some family histories that mention Christine immigrating to America, but only tells me that it was after her parents (who immigrated in 1870). This is the first supporting evidence.

03 April 2012

From the 1870 Census I found two children for Peder and Christine Jensen. I've also gone back and found christening records for those children and for Peder. Since both children were christened in the Lutheran church I guess the Jensen's didn't get baptized into the LDS church like Christine's family did...at least not yet. :)

Moving forward in time, I decided to look for the Jensen's in the 1880 Danish census. I have family accounts, from the Funch/Lund's in the USA, that the Jensen's did immigrate at some future time. It would have to be after 1880 since they are in the census --

This time they have another son, Jacob Peter Jensen, age 1. There is a 10 year gap between Laurits and Jacob. Did they have more children who did not live to 1880? Miscarriages wouldn't be recorded but stillbirth's would probably get a burial record (but I would imagine not a birth record). If they did have children that lived for a short while, then I should be able to find a birth record. I'll have to go through all the church records for those years and see what I can find.

Alder
Alderen anføres med det fyldte Aar, men for Børn, der ikke have fyldt 1 Aar,
anføres ”Under 1 Aar”AgeThe age is to be listed with the
filled year, but for childrem who are not 1 full year are to be listed as
“under 1 Year”
45) 40
46) 39
47) 13
48) 11

Fødested, nemlig Kiøbstadens eller Sognets og Amtets Navn,
og for de i Bilandene og kolonierne Fødte samt for Udlændinge Landet, hvor de
ere fødtePlace of Birth, namely the city’s or
the name of the parish and County and for those born in the colonies*) as well
as for foreigners the country, where they are born.
45) her i Sognet / herein the parish [Nylarsker]
46) Aaker Sogn, Bornholm Amt. / Aaker parish, Bornholm County
47) her i Sognet / herein the parish [Nylarsker]
48) do. ditto

49)
do. ditto

*) Bilandene and Colonierne are two words
for the same thing: Colonies

Or whether they are
dependent on poor-house
45) Huusfader, Daglejer i Agerbruget / Housefather, Day Laborer in agriculture
46) hans Hustru / his wife
47) deres Børn / their children
48) deres Børn / their children

What is Lundology?

Why, its the study of the Lund's, of course! I am jumping in to researching our family history and seeing where it takes me. We are the Lund's. We come from Lund's, Ranson's, DeMacedo's, Lima's, Anderson's, Warner's, Ferreira's, Da Silva's and beyond! Since my own side of the family is from Brazil, it is quite difficult to track things down. Troy's side, on the other hand, has proven to be much easier. So, I'll be jumping back and forth and all around to learn about where we come from.

Are you related to us? I'd love to learn more about you and share what I know about our common ancestors!